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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Re: Les Miles: "If we lose to Florida, it's going to get ugly"

College-football fans may be obsessive, but they're not crazy. If they decide to come after the coach with a guillotine, basic civility states they usually first wait for his team to lose a game.

This season, you can kiss these rules goodbye.

Like perhaps no 5-0 coach before him, LSU's Les Miles has managed to win all of his games while simultaneously enraging his team's fans. It got so bad that after the team beat West Virginia on Sept. 25, LSU athletic director Joe Alleva felt it necessary to write a letter to fans before last week's home game against Tennessee. It's purpose: to plead with them not to boo. "[W]hen some among the crowd are vocally disapproving of our own players or coaches, it is detrimental on many levels," the letter said.

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This partly stems from the coach's chronically odd performances at news conferences. An entire website is devoted to his often-rambling statements. (Example: "I look forward to the opportunity at very positive consequences beyond finishing the season strong.")

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Still, the Tigers have finished in the top five of one of the polls three times in his five seasons—far better than some of his predecessors. "Les brings so many good things to the table," said Mr. Weems. "You only have to look back at the days of Curley Hallman and Gerry DiNardo to know how far we are removed from that kind of mediocrity."

"The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman."

First of all no. Secondly, winning while keeping the fans and players pissed off is the best coaching strategy of all time. Winning makes you vulnerable, except when you hate your coach. And finally, I went to Michigan, I know what I'm doing.

Even when they win it is ugly. I'd hate to see what it would take for them to lose a game.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

we need to be reminded to thank Herbie for blowing him out of the water, and getting him his HUGE contract at LSU, complete with free education for his kids, even if he is not the coach when they attend.

but he was actually a pariah in Ann Arbor, and Carr would have laid down on the tracks to keep him out

As I recall, he put his foot down about Les. Old "classy" Lloyd, behind closed doors, was one tough s.o.b. Somehow--despite his cantankerousness with the press--I think lots of people failed to see that. And he loved his players just like Rich does.